CRICKET Driffield Town Cricket Club


All smiles at Driffield


After a delayed meeting due to the Covid-19 crisis, Lee Williams, finally caught up with Mark Goddard, the club’s Head Groundsman and his right-hand man, former Head Groundsman Phil Skelton, on what turned out to be a sunny day in July


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riffield Town Cricket and Recreation Club is situated in the East Riding market town of Driffield, also known as Great Driffield. The club hosts a


variety of sports, but its main attraction is cricket, with the first team playing in the ECB Yorkshire Premier League North. First-class cricketers Andrew Gale, Richard Pyrah, Steven Patterson, Jonny Bairstow, Ishara Amerasinghe and Abid Ali have all played for the club.


The site covers eleven acres and provides a variety of sports for the local area, including two cricket pitches, two bowls greens, six grass tennis courts, three hard tennis courts and a two-lane fully enclosed ECB approved ’tp365’ non-turf cricket practice facility. At the age of fifteen, Mark was playing


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cricket for his local village club in Hutton Cranswick. This is where and when he began to take an interest in the maintenance of the square, helping the groundsman look after it. “After leaving school, I took out a motor engineering course for two years, I enjoyed it but, at that time, I started to play golf. With my interest in gardening and now golf, I had a change of heart in what career path I wanted to take. Through Bishop Burton College, I got an apprenticeship at a golf club/caravan park, where I gained experience maintaining both sites. After ten years there, I ended up becoming a plumber for four years, working with one of the wife’s relatives. The job wasn’t for me working in people’s houses all day, and I decided I wanted to get back into the sports turf industry and back out in the fresh air.”


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